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Freunde führen einander – Der kommunalpolitische Dialog mit dem „Islam' im Modus einer Gouvernementalität der Freundschaft
- Source :
- Geographica Helvetica, Vol 72, Pp 303-316 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Copernicus Publications, 2017.
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Abstract
- Drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality and on ethnographic fieldwork in a German city, this paper addresses practices of governing Muslims and Islam at the level of local politics. It conceptualises these practices as a governing through friendship, that is, a type of liberal conduct-of-conduct that focuses on trust-building and practised togetherness. The paper analyses techniques of governance and processes of subjectivation, putting an emphasis on how emotionality becomes integrated into governmental practices. I show how governing through friendship unfolds in the spatio-political context of a local dialogue with Islam, how the latter is linked to the interfaith paradigm and thus becomes a religiously-sensitive, post-secular political technology in which religious sensibilities are becoming elements of governmentality.
Details
- Language :
- German, English, French, Italian
- ISSN :
- 00167312 and 21948798
- Volume :
- 72
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Geographica Helvetica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.01a0a21cc86c4d19bea2a96ca5eda9bf
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-303-2017